The Sun. — London, England, 1864-03-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 19, 1864 ---, —.......... POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day, 491 1 ; Imperial Bank, 341 35; Metropolitan and SHARE MARKETS.--This day. Provincial, 251 26; New Zealand, 11 1; City • .....r........„..................... rat MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Offices shares a re quoted 31 4 prem.; Queens- ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOKS. THE HA.VMARKET AGAIN.-Henry Isaacson, clerk, 40, land Sheep, Ito 1 prem. ; Credit Mobilier, 11 21 Share ' p. m Closing I Business Railways. P r io e . r d one . ••• --. Norfolk. street, St ran d, was c h arged before Mr. Knox with prem. ; C re di t F oncier, 441 prem. ; Financial Cor- behaving in a disorderly manner in Norris-street and the Poration, 21 3 prem. ; National Marine Insurance Haymarket. Company, el- 11 prem. •; Imperial Financial 4 1 4 - ; • a 13.14,25 I n t i ly l. 7ll7 ° and s - - Staines, 123 C, said that at an early hour that morning p rem.; Thames Iron Shipbuilding, 331 prem.; the 7 10 Bost.,Sleat. andMid.Co I all 85 9 he heard a great disturbance in the Haymarket, and saw a T n y d n S e t . r.Val ! all a 85 st Bristol and Exeter I 100 83 e 5 per ent. Bolivian Loan, Ito 11 prem.; North Aus- et Caledonian ; 100 1181 1191 the defendant there with two friends who were trying to p er C ent. 50 Cork and Bandon i all - - trolifin Company, 11 prem.; Central Argentine all 6 7 get him away. He requested the defendant, who had been fighting, to go away, but he refused, and got his legs be- Railway, 11 to 11 prem. •; London and Liverpool 20 Cornwall 10 Do A 10 Do lA all - - tween his (Staines') and threw him down, and then struck Hotel, 14 2 prem.; London Gas Metre Company, -- - been paid to B. him on the breast. i 1, prem.; Fore Street Warehouse, 51 6 prem. 4ti gte.senaon.a din s , 1 all 50 Dublin & Belfast Junc.l all 35 37 25 Dun.,Perth,&Ab. Junc.l all 16 17 :Mr. Knox asked whether there was any repetition of the ..... •••••••••• st Edinburgh & Glasgow. 1 100 9l 93 conduct of the pr ev i ous n i g ht i n th e H a y mar k e t . st Glaeg. and S. Western.; 100 101 106 BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES. st Great Eastern, Ord. stk ' 100 47 :8 471 t Inspector Silverton said there was, and he had to send for et Ditto A stock - - _ GOVERNMENT , FUNDS, the picket to take away a soldier. There was a large num- st Ditto East Anglian st -I 100 61 71 3 per Cent. Consols 914 i El, GreatNorthof Scotland 100 - - b-r of persons there, and a good many young gentlemen, Ditto Account, April 8 He had to remain on duty in the Haymarket for nearly two 3 per Cent. Reduced hours. New 3 per Cent st Gt. S. and W. of Ireland 100 93 95 "ievr 2k Per Cent. Jan. 189 1 The defendant said that what had been said was true. Annuities, - 30 6tl : • J •ljn , 15W • - st Great Western lie had been drinking, and was not in the place more than Ditto or 30 y 3 r , r r s e , expire expire sth April, • 1885. -- st Do Str Val giut. stock 100 - st Lancashire & Yorkshire IGO 1(94 110 - five minutes, and he was sorry for what had occurred. Exchequer Bills, kl,OOO, 21 & 3 per Cent. 7 3 dis st London and Blackwall 100 68 70 Staines said he did not think the defendant threw him Ditto £SOO .. .. Wilfully. Ditto £IOO an d £2OO st Lon. & North Western 100 1 0 81 10 8 f 1084 5 3 ank England Stk, 41 per Ct., last hf.-yr. shut Mr. Knox, a f ter s t at i ng th a t th e d e f en d ant h ad said Mee st Lon. & Scr.th Western 100 98 100 98 best thing he could-that he was sorry for it-and advised INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. st Man., Shef., & Lincoln. 100 52 53 534 21 him to keep from the H tymarket, fined him 10s. or 7 days. India Stock, 101 p er C en t., Ap r il 1874 - 50 Maryport and Carlisle. all - - Ditto 5 per Cent. July, 16711 -4 a at Metropolitan all 1114 1125 1124 i Ditto Account.... - st Midland MONEY MARK.ET Ditto 4 pe r C en t., O c t. 1888 - Do ertiticates -P st Do Birming. ac Derby 100 96 93 981 J 50 11.11 d. Cll. W. of Ireland all - - -.- AND Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872. lO4 25 Do. 1 shares - - ent - COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Ditto 5 1 per Cent., May, 18 7 9 10 M D id o K Cray Line - - Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861 - et North British O Ditto ditto Aug., 1866 - at Edin., Perth, & Dundee 100 24 26 st Nth. Eastern-Berwick 100 1001 1011 tot CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. DT tta Bonds £l,OOO _ Ditto under £l,OOO - 25 Do, G.N.E. purchase 16.13.4 - - a , About £52,000 in bar gold was taken into the at Do Leeds lOO 551 551 . FOREIGN FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES. a t Do York Bank yesterday, but 40,000 sovereigns we re w ith- st Do Carlisle lOO - - •_ . drawn for exportation to the East. Brazilian 5 per Cent .. st North London Ditto, 1839 and 1859.....• , 916.4 North Staffordshire There was no material alteration in the foreign Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 lu N. and S. W. Junction. all 101 111 Ditto 1863 893 100 124 126 st Scottish Central exchange, yesterday afternoon. Ditto Scrip, £55 paid The bar silver by the West India packet has been Egyptian 7 per Cent lOO4 et Do Scot. Mid. stock.. 100 98 100 sold at ss. 11d. per oz., being rather higher than Ditto, Second Issue - et Shropshire Union .... 100 63 64 - Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons - the price recently obtained. Thi s i m p rovement h as Ditto Account - at South Devon lOO 34 26 et South Eastern been produced by the advance just telegraphed Ditto Coupons - a t South Wales - - from Bombay. Ditto Account lll st ;S. York. and River Dun 100 98 101 Guatemala 5 per Cent. - 20 ,Staines,Wok.,andWok. all ' 85 94 Since Monday last the specie movement has been Italian S per Cent.(Mareminana Railway ) 744 25 Stockton & Darlington all 87 38 of a very extensiv e c h arac t er , the imports having Mexican 3 per Cent 25 Do New, 1801 lO 7 8 p amounted to £1,370,300, whil e th e ex p orts have 0n1y Va1e......._- Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 - 10 Do B I reached £413,300. D itto Account - 10 Do C 3 3 4 There is no new feature i n th e genera l discount p - Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 - SO Ulster - --5 Ditto Account 484 25 Do - p t 2.10 ; Do 5l - - market, and the demand for accommodation con- Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £St - et Vale, of Neath 901 1 et iVictoria sta. and Pim.. 100 tinues moderately active, bat there is also a good Ditto 5 per Cent, , 1862 Spanish 3 per Cent - at IWaterford & Kilkenny 100 -• - supply of capital. The charges for first class bills Ditto Account ; 521 at West Cornwall lOO 22 24 range from 5I t o 6 per cent., and no further con -351 654 / at 'West Midland --Oxford 100 - - cessions are expected until a ft er th e di str ib u ti on o f - at st Do Newport 100 ..... .-- Do Hereford 100 the April di v id en d s on N ew Th rees, Reduced, (Sc.:. S p p! : nii Ditto AccountP Caesrsti. Passive o e f Coup - at W. Hartlepool Har.eat. 100 - - Ditto Account 134 4 A call of £5 per share, payable oa the Ist pros., Tu D rk it i t s o h 6 per Cent. 1854 Account has been made by the directors of the Standard Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 - Bank of British South Africa. Ditto Account 7O 4 - bare R a il wa y s Closing Paid. Price. Business don. Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 - The directors of the Credit Mobilier (Limited) Ditto Account .. 71 701 1/ 1 Du etiainio re St Lawrence all 58 40 Nape notified that, notwithsta n di ng th e rece ipt o f Ditt o , £lOO Bonds 715 1 sk 1 Bora.,Baroda&C en t I n d ( Gu. 5 percent.. IOC 1035 1015 1031 three times the number of applications for shares V enezuela 3 per Cent. - 2 0 Do. New . ...... ..... 8 p 1 p Ditto Account - 20 Do. E. Shares than were to be issued, an allotment has been made Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 - 004 Baffalo and Laaeliuron all 61 6 54 to each subscriber. Ditto Account Ditto 14 pet Cent. :00 { Buff a l o ,BrantAGodrich 50 _ The Bolivian Government has appeared in this 6 p. et. bds. A ug . 1, 18% Dividends on the above payable in Load 'u , 00 Do, do. July 1, 187,1 ioc - - market for a 7 per cent. loan, amounting to Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil . - 100 uo. do. June 1, 18 , 1 MO - - 4500,000, of whi c h £500 , 000 i s reserve d till ne xt Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates - st Clcutta.&S.Ea s t n . ( l.,„ 100 102 (04 st Cape Town & Dock Scri i 100 103 10, year. Th e b on d s are to b e em i tte d i n sums o f £lOO , Italian, 5 per Cent., 186 1, Ex. 25 francs - stock }Caen. Bengal gu. sp. , 100 1051 1064 Ditto Account . 674 cteck East Indian. gu. sp. c. 100 1(45 205 104/ 1 £ 2 OO, and £5OO each, redeemable at par in 25 years 20 Do. do. LT Ext..... 15 4 1 p TWO O'CLOCK. 20 Do. do. H do. .. 15 4 t p by an accumulating sinking fund commencing at stock Grand Trunk of Canada 1,a., 19 20 191 Consols Money 100 Do. lst Prat. Bonds.. ,ill 73 15 2 per cent. on the 15th March, 1866. The opera. Ditto A.pril Account tion is brought forward by the London and County 100 Do. 2d Fret. Bonus.. all 65 67 66 4 Bank, a n d the proceeds are to be applied strictly Liverpool Cotton Market—Th i s Day. 1 10000 Do. do. deferred.-- all Do. 3d Pr ef. stock ... all 51 53 l 49 5 t to industrial purposes--viz., the formation of a -- lOO Do. do. deferred...... all 40 t 2 100 Do. 4th Pref. stock... all 26 28 credit establishment at Potosi, to assist exclusively Market quiet, but firm. Sales about 6,000 bales 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 22 c. 5 the stock Gt, IndlaPenl n .gua.sp.c. 100 1035 1044 1015 5 mining interests of the State, to the con - cr more. Imports, 13.287. 20 Do. New gua. sp. c... 12 51 i, struction of bridges, roads, and other public works, - - Do. January, 1852 .. - - etook Gt. South.of India (Lim With a view to develops the vast mineral wealth, METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS. guaranteed 5 per cent. too 103 104 205 Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 95 10 .91 1 the guano trade and the commercial resources of the 201 Do. New 16 11 101, • • country generally. For the due payment of the This board met as usual yesterday, at the offices in too Do. 6 p.c. '73 wlth't opt. a al l l l LI 87 0 84 interest and the redemption of the principal the Spring-gardens ; the President, J. Thwaites, Esq., took the to t eri o cit s a 4 n p Branch c do Limited e i-i 2 1 4p 2/ Gov ernment of the Republic have specially hypo- ch a ir at twelve o'clock. stock Madras guar., 5p.0. .. 100 1015 a3l 1021 stock Do.4p. o. Extension 100 97 08 thecated the proceeds of the guano deposits, as well FINANCE. stock Dc. 14 d 0........ 100 s 2 94 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 -- - g The cash statement for the current week shows a total 20 a s the revenues accruing from customs o thef the stock Melb.Corp. 6p. c. Bnda. 100 - - general balance of £188,797 12s 4d. 50 nelb. & Hobson's Bay. all 55 58 , PToLrt of Cobija and the towns of Oruro and La Pay. EXTENSION OF THE GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY, 100 Do. 7 p.c. Mortg. „ Bds. alt - - The Republic has no external debt, and its internal 110 Nowßronsvack ac Can& all 3 5 obligations Mr. LONG introduced a deputation from the inhabitants Class A and B are stated not to exceed half a million N.Rl.C'dati pc let lb& 100 82 sterrn of Slaoreditch, praying the board to oppose the extension of (100 1034 1045 1045 4 1 - g; and this the Government intend to extin• the line from Shoreditch to Wormwood-street. The views of ?tuck. tS, (1 stook u e o i . n u e elm • • - •• • • a ..: ' 100 103 104 guish next year by the remaining issue (£500,000) the memorialists were that it the work were carried out it so Do. do .4 9 2 iip st Do. Punjaub .... Es . , C • all 1024 1033 a this lo an. The • • •would n ecessarily involve the destruction of a large amount Do. Do. ........ r c ,g , , 100 - - following • subscriptions can be made in the instalments :-L5 on application, £lO on of property, and would do more harm than good. s ock Do. Indus. St. Flo. k • 100 98 103 allotment, £lO on Referred to the Streets Committee for consideration and COLONIAL OOVERNMENI Stf,Cli UT tt.,;-. 15th April, £l5 on 16th Mav •• ' repert, £lO on 15th June, £l5 on 15th July, £l5 on 15th IMPROVEMENT OF NEWOATE-STREET. - k...n.1i0v. (5 p.c.J a. &J uly ' - 1877-81 ..... ... ..... 10 101 103 101 August, and £8 -less the dividend of 34 per cent. A'report was brought up from the Works and Improve- - Do. 6p. o. Feb..l; * Aug. 100 100 g --on 15th September. Discount at the rate of 5 ment Committee, recommending (among other things) that : Do. 1)o. t (5 ., f ,. ..0 0 .:11 t a n r.1 . 7 0 ef y t . . LT, 99 8 / 01 891 per cent. will be allowed for prepayments in full. the board do contribute the sum of £3,058 10s, being one- - Do. 5 Inscrib_ed etooi.. !pc; tp at The quotation at the Stock Exchange this morning half the cost of effecting a public improvement in Newgate • - tapeGi ;o nl p e l oj et o : l l E; !! )0 1 06 108 - iou 108 110 street, to be carried out by the Commissioners of Sewers of - Do. 18ta. 100 110 112 is 11 2 prem. the city of London, by laying into the public way so much - , Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 NI? 111 The shares of the Dutch Tramway Company of the sites of the houses, Nos. 67 to 70, inclusive, in that - I ( i, ' l, 3 , , ti to l le tiu N a o 6 v. p l e B r 7t3 c , en 6 t p . c . 100 100 196 108 Were in demand early in the day at 11 prem., and street, as is shown on the plan accompanying the memorial, - iNatal Gov. 6 per cant.. 100 1.48 110 -- , N.B.G 0v.15p.0.J a..tJ uly 100 tot 103 closed at 2 prem. at an estimated cost of £6,117 exclusive of professional - Do. sp. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 - The prospectus of Silver's India-rubber Works charges ; and that such amount be pad to the Commission -7 D Do th . N. S.W. tiov. 5 p c.,18,_,1 100 99 100 995 and Telegraph Cable Company (Limited) has been era of Sewers of the city of London, oa a certificate from the ::. I Qu s e te e r n i s i 5tip0..,c1.80,1:t &upwdst toEit 110000 99 99 100 10 architect of this board of the completion of the work. p cent. 100 108 110 put before the public, and, to all appearance, on a After considerable discussion and several divisions, it was 2 !g e o w va Z S e c a o l tVal ° O f. 6p• c. very sound footing. The capital is to be £500,000 l i tilicl7l 7 e s v. 6p. C. IgLO) 103 105 - _ 105 eventually decided by the casting vote of the chairman that in 10,000 shares of £5O each, of which 5,000 is to the amount to be contributed should be £2,500. - 18.Aus G6p.0.157&&up.. 100 101 111 be. a first issue, £2 per share is to be paid on appli- The routine business having been disposed of, the board : Z i a l o ",i o 6 . l o ) :V D. B := l . 3 ' lgg t - ii 112 112 cation, and £3 on allotment, of which a considerable adjourned. ----- — BRITISH MINES. proportion have already been subscribed for. The 2 i Cambrian Consul. Gold 1 , 4 td ' works are already we ll an d f avourably known, and SALE OF MR. THACKERAY'S LIBRARY.-Yeater- - t r .,;liffordAlr n lgvp a a v t - 1 s gl 6 :5 5 but little doubt can b e entertained that, with the day, the third and last day of the sale of Mr. - Ea e st Bas u eett (illogan).. 30 63 65 d influence of the important board of directors, whose Thackeray's effects, the library of the deceased gentleman, ": t e as e t ( S a lo r n o u n G old ......... 2.1 7 ;.6 2 - 9/ 3 - 01 names will be at once recognised as gentlemen of was put up to auction. There was a very numerous Mien- - East Cam Brea... 3.4.0 Z . 74 4 standing, these hitherto successful works wia dance of ladies end gentlemen connected with literature and -- 11 (' "2Atzgptt; 8.9.0 t , Tg 11 rapidly expand. Not the least guarantee of this is the fine arts. The books were put up in 326 lots, and were - in number about 5,000 vols. They were of the most miscel- - Greghe Vor (lieleton, the fact that Messrs. Silver and Co. will remain laneous des„i • • - ville description, and many of them sold for very high _ :Great South '1 olgus , 4 1 0 7 s 4 4 5 1 41 394 i 6.16. I. 71 71 11er:4'8-Foot 8.12 55 37 identified with the extended operations of the prices. A few were very rare, and found a bidding proper- - Dingston Downs 4.18.0 31 44 company. tionately high. The following is a list of the principal books - Lady Bertha - Margaret (Ony Lelant, Po 19 21 A company has been formed for effectively carry- sold, with the prices annexed :-"Ainsworth'sLatinDiction- Mame Valley. ) y Iron Ore (Lim , 2) : It 4 4 ing out and extending Bonelli's Electric Telegraph. ary," with autograph, "W. M. Th . ackera y, Charter House, 4 I ,l i eVe nd Setun I 102 8e 95 The capital is to be £250,000, of which £25,000 July 182 " £4 15s "Bic replete Universelle Ancienne et I.;l ' odern 7 e , " 52 vole ' , Paris £B. " A Christmas Carol," 7 ... N ; . r . ° l l ol'l ) ira ir s n e s et(lllo can 13. 2 1 4 .0 P 2 • forms the original capital of the company. Under , 0rt ( 1 2, 1 Wheal nt a y ze 2.6.9 41 5z by Charles Dickens, Presentation copy, inscribed "W. M. - the proposed new management there wilt be a fur- Thackeray, from Charles Dickens, whom he had made very 2 , t' • rovidec ° 4 ( U s n • Lelni.) 10.6.7 41 43 ther issue of £225,000, in 22,500 share of £lO each. happy a long way from home." For this little book, an ordi- - 1 . - ?:ot a t r i n Glf r a e d a o ( nAt. l ) o t. g C a l i e l re 14 1 440 (60 The deposit to be £1 on application, and £1 on al- nary copy of Etr.Dickens's story, there was an exciting corn lotment. We may notice that a line has been petition, and it was at length sold for £2:5 10s. Chastellux -.... I Stray Park & _ d -1 12 . Wheat Fran. (Mogen 18.18.9 50 55 ar Slip. Lea Min. already established between Manchester and Liver- (Marquis de) "Travels in North America," with autograph - T i n Croft 0 19 20 of Washington (1787), £4 10s. " Coruhill Magazine," Weal Basset (Illogan) l5 11 12 pool, the working of which proves to demonstra- from January, 1860, to June, 1862, 5 volumes, in rdd - ‘'v' es c t i s ra t don (Liskeard) 4 % 2 20 5 22 tion the excellence of B one lli' s met h o d over morocco, ia 12s 6d ; ditto, in green ditto, £B. De - W heat Basset (Mogan) 55 875 921 that of other telegraphic systems, and the names Quincey ( rhoreas), "Selections, Grave and Gay" (14), --1 ai e e a a l l 1 1= e y r (a d e r l u an ti t ' j 216 35 37 of the gentlemen who form the Directory are Edinburgh, in date, £5 10s. Bronks (Charlotte), " Vil- - WhealLuthott guarantee that full scope shall be given to the fetes,'' 3 vole , a presentation copy, £5 ss. "The Gentle- - Wheal Mary Ann /Men.) 8 134 141 Wheal 3eton . . 581 190 195 working of it out. A rrangements h ave been made man's Magazine," from commencement in 1731 to 1827, - wheaurreka„ey (Lie.) 7 21 25 to acquire the patent right for the United Kinaaarn I 1'12vols : , £_ll. _ 4 : Herodoti Historiarum Libri IX Curs," - wheal Union 3.17 25 21 SALE OF MR. THACKERAY'S LlBRARY.—Yester day, the third and last day of the sale of Mr. Thackeray's effects, the library of the deceased gentleman, was put up to auction. There was a very numerous atten dance of ladies and gentlemen connected with literature and the fine arts. The books were put up in 326 lots, and were in number about 5,000 vols. They were of the most miscel laneous description, and many of them sold for very high prices. A few were very rare, and found a bidding propor tionately high. The following is a list of the principal books sold, with the prices annexed :—"Ainsworth's Latin Diction ary," with autograph, " W. M. Thackeray, Charter House, July, 1827," £4 15s, "Biographic Universelle Ancienne et Moderne," 62 vols., Paris, £B. "A Christmas Carol," by Charles Dickens, presentation copy, inscribed "W. M. Thackeray, from Charles Dickens, whom ho had made very happy a long way from home." For this little book, an ordi nary copy of Mr.Dicaens's story, there was an exciting com petition, and it was at length sold for £25 10s. Chastellux (Marquis de) "Travels in North America," with autograph of Washington (1787). £1 10s. " Coruhill Magazine," from January, 1860, to June, 1862, 5 volumes, in red morocco, £8 12s 6d ; ditto, in green ditto, X?. De Quincey (Thomas), " Selections, Grave and Gay" (14), Edinburgh, in date, £5 10s. Bronte (Charlotte), " Vil tette," 3 vole , a presentation copy, £5 6s. "The Gentle man's Magazine," from commencement in 1731 to 1827, 112 vols., iIL "Herodoti Historiarum Libri IX Curs," T. Gaisford, with an autograph of Mr. Thackeray, £6. " Homeri Odyssea cum Schollis Veteribus," and auto graph, £3 10s. "A Course of Mathematics," by C. Hutton, with an autograph of Mr. Thackeray (1806) £3 108, " Liai sons Dangereuses (1788), recueillies dans une Societe ;" ditto, " Recueil des Faceties Parisiennes (1760) £3 lOs. " Memoirs pour eei vir a l'Histoire de France de pute le XIIIe Sidele jusqu'a la Fin du XVIIe," 33 vols., Paris, 1857, £6. "The Midnight Spy ; or, a View of the Transactions of London and Westminster from the Hours of Ten in the Evening till Five in the Morning" (1766), £2 4s. Paine's " Common Sense," addressed to the inhabitants of America (1792), £2 2s. Rabelais (F.), " Works, translated and illustrated by M. Laduchat." 4 cols., £1 Bs. " Shakspere," the text re vised by the Rev, Alexander Dyce, 6 vols. (1857), £3 10s. Thackeray (Rev. F.), " Researches into the Ecclesiastical and Political State of Ancient Britain," 2 vols., £l. 6 ‘ Walpole's Letters," edited by Peter Cunningham, pre sentation copy, £3 ss. "The Bloody Register; a Select and Judicious Collection of the most remarkable Trials for Murder, Treason, Rape, Highway Robbery, and Piracy, from the year 1700 to 1764," 4 vols., £4 17s 6d. " Wieland's Poetische Work," 49 vols., 1 eipsig, 1818, £1 18s. Quartos: " Froissart's Chronicles," translated from the original by Lord Berners, reprinted from Pynson's edi tions of 1523 and 1525, 2 vols., £3 15. " Worcester's Dic tionary of the English Language," presentation copy, Bos ton, 1860, £l l7s. Punch, V ots. I, to XXII., Vols. XXXI. XXXII., XXXVII., XXXVIII., and XLI. to XLIV., bound in 15 vols., and 1 vol. of 1850, £3 4s. Richard Doyle's Foreign " Tour of Messrs. Brown, Jones, and Robinson," 1854, £l3e. There were some curious old folios, consisting principally of engravings in outline, and plates coloured and plain. 'I he most remarkable of these was a volume, " Monthly Masks of Vocal Musick, containing all the choices Songs by the best Masters," Dr. Kitchener's copy, £2 6s. The" Spec tator," Nos. Ito 200, 3 vols., £4 ; " Laiger : 160 Carica tures, from 1782 to 1810, arranged chronologically, and marked with Names," £2 58. " Monument du Costume Physique et Moral de la Fin du Dix-huitieme Steele," twenty-eight plates, by Moreau Neuwied, 1789, £2. Doyle (R.), "Ye Manners and Ye Customs of ye Englisho," £1 13s. Ditto, "Selections from Rejected Cartoons," with descriptive letter-press and critical remarks, presentation copy, £1 14e. There were a great number of books, in cluding cases of French novels, magazines, miscellaneous works, and ephemeral papers, which wore eagerly bid for by the dealers, and call fur no particular description. A company has been formed for effectively carry ing out and extending Bonelli's Electric Telegraph. The capital is to be £250,000, of which £25,000 forms the original capital of the company. Under the proposed new management there will be a fur ther issue of £225,000, in 22,500 share of £lO each. The deposit to be £1 on application, and £1 on al lotment. We may notice that a line has been already established between Manchester and Liver pool, the working of which proves to demonstra tion the excellence of Bonelli's method over that of other telegraphic systems, and the names of the gentlemen who form the Directory are guarantee that full scope shall be given to the working of it out. Arrangements have been made to acquire the patent right for the United Kingdom, as also to meet the great expenditure necessary to carry out the extensive operations which are pro posed. It is intended by this company to reduce the tariff of charge for messages to a uniform rate of sixpence for the usual 20 words. The typo-electrical instrument possesses peculiar advantages —ame n g others the printing of each message in the very act of transmission, and also the greater celerity with Which communications may be forwarded. The ex periments which have been already made so success. fully show the great value and importance which must attach the commercial world, more especially, to the operations of this important company. The shares of the Frontino and Bolina Gold Mining Company were in demand at =-3-, and 1 prem. PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Northern, 5 per cent., 1131 Great orthern, 4i per cent., red. at 10 per cent. pm., 1021 8 Great Western, Birmingham gua. stock, 741 great Western, Chester gua. stock, 761 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Chatham, &c , 6 per cent. 2dpf., 70 Midland New £4 shares, 21 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Buckinghamshire, 94 Northern and Eastern 5 per cent., 551 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, n Great Luxembourg, 111 Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean, 371 Sambre and Meuse, 81 1 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 211 FOREIGN MINES. Cape Copper, lira., ilk 10} Mont. Aureos Brazil Gold Min. Co., 21 Yudanangutana of S. Australia, lira.; 2! I Two O'CLOCK. At the Paris Bourse this day, according to Mr. Renter's telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes opened at 66.10 66,05. Very fiat. The English Stock Market presents renewei indications of heaviness, and the funds have de clined another per cent. This downward ten dency is produced by sales in realisation of profits, there being an absence of unfavourable rumours, and not much business in progress. Console are 911 a for money, and 91 a I for the account. The New Threes and Reduced are 89a I; Ex chequer Bills, 9s. 3s. die. ; and India 5 per Cents., JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Agra and United Service (lim.), 1211 2 Alliance 491. ly Anglo Austrian, 6# it Australasia, 75 Chartered Bank of India, Australia. and China. 441 Chartered leer. of India, London, and China, 70 Consolidated Bank, lira., 104 English and Irish (lim.), English. Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 211 European Bank, lim., 9 # Hindustan, ihina, and Japan (lim.), 34 34 45 31 Ditto, new, issued at 2 pm , 11 104 Imperial Bank (lim.), 35 4 # Imperial Ottoman, 195 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lint, 34 1 1 London and i,lrazilian (lira.), 59 4 London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate, 515 London and County, 60 594 London and South American, lint, 9 31erchantlliank, lim., 12 # Mercantile and Exchange. Rm., 144 Metrop. and Prov. Bank (lim.), 254 6 54 New Zealand Baak, 11 # Oriental Bank Corporation. 634 Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi, Lim., 11 Ditto, new, 114 Union of Australia, There has also been less buoyancy in the Foreign Market, and business has been very much curtailed. Turkish 6. per Cents., 1862, are 71 711 ; ditto Consolides, 538 ; Greek, 23 I. 241 ; ditto Coupons, ; Mexican, 448 ; Spanish Passive, 351 36; ditto Certificates, 131 ; Portuguese, 481 4 ; Italian, 67 1 =; 1 , ; and the Confederate Loan, 51 53. The operations in the Railway Share Market have been limited, and in a fsw instances prices have shown less firmness. Great Eastern, Great Western, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, and South Eastern have each declined 5s ; while Great Northern A stock, and London and Brighton have improved ss. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain inactive at about previous rates. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares generally sup port Previous quotations. Alliance Bank realise Ditto, new, 304 14 Union of Loudon, 46j MISCELLANEOUS. Australian Mort. Land and Finance, Um., 31 I Bombay Gas, limited, 5* • Canada Company, 741 Commercial Union (Insurance) ' 91 Contract Corporation, line. , 64 7 Crystal Palace, 344 Discount Corporation, limited,ro/ Egyptian Commercial and Trading, lim., 5 Financial Corporation, 4* 5 * 5 Gen. Crt dit and keinance of London, Urn., 84 4 1 Hudson's Bay, 18 ; 19 International Financial Society, 11; 12 111 12 11/ Intercolonial Royal Mail Steam, lim., 74 Joint 'stock Discount, lim., 64 Land Securities, lim., 44 London Financial Association, lim., 261 / Ditto, new, 15 4 Londn Provincial Marine, 3i alatiras Irrigation and Canal, 24 Ditto (all), 21 National Steam Navigation, lim., 5 4/ Thum and Mersey urine (insurance), Uun., 7 It is reported, upon good authority, that the murderer Townley has been put to the trade of a weaver, in the Model Prison of Pentonville.—Derby Mercury. The quotation of gold at Paris is about 4 per mills pm., anti the short exchange on London is 25.30 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of Z 3 17s. tOttL per ounce for standard gold, it appe., , e that gold Is about 1-10th per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. THE UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE, (This Day.) EXPERIMENTS AT SHOEBURYNESS, The never-ceasing wheel of time has brought round another University Boat Race, and we believe there never has been one that has created more excitement than the present, nor in which there has been either a greater amount of money speculated, or the odds have more fluctuated. The love of the English for aquatic sports in this our seagirt isle is a striking trait in their character, and the penchant has been fostered by the esta blishment and wide incremo of rowing clubs amongst the people of every position and denomination. When the University race first commenced, rowing at the Universities was in its infancy compared with its present maturity; it was not then as it is now. It was considered enough to bring them into competition now and then, but not yearly. There was a gap of seven years between the first and second matches, and three more before they again entered the lists, and a corresponding time afterwards, but for the last 10 years it has been annual. Its attractions were at first insignificant, but the most cursory reference to the contests of later years must show the interest and importance that have gradually grown with its growth and strengthened with it strength. To not only the old University men and the public at large is this peculiarly a matter of excitement and interest, but it is anticipated with mingled feelings of anxiety and pleasure by the craws themselves—notwithstanding the severe training and enormous self-denial to which they are subjected, and talked of with pride and admiration in after life, to the latest period, by its heroes. In the revolutions of time there have been exactly 20 contests between the sister universities. In the first 9 of these, extending over a period of 21 years from 1829 to 1849, Cambridge won 7, but latterly fortune has smiled upon their opponents, and in the last 11 years, including the three last, Oxford has achieved 8 victories to 3 of Cambridge ; so it will be seen that the present race was to determine out of the whole which was the winner, and the anxiety which has been manifested during the past week, and the larg e attendance at Putney, conclusively attest the interes t which was taken in the result. The following were the gentlemen composing the crews : OXFORD. st lb C. P. Roberts, Trinity W. Awdry, Balliol F. H. Kelley, University J. C. Parson, Trinity W. B. Jacobson, Christ Church l2 4 A. E. Seymour, University , ... M. Brown, Trinity D. Pocklington, Brasenose C, R. Tottenham, Christ Church (cox) 7 0 Another theoretical novelty in the way of targets was tested at this practice-ground on Wednesday, and, like most of the extraordinary novelties that are brought there, was proved to be utterly worth less in two shots. The target was one composed of compressed wool, made after Mr. Nasmyth's plan, that gentleman, and a very large number of others also, entertaining a confident opinion that a good thickness of wool when pressed tight would offer an amount of resistance to shot which, if not et:ancient to keep it out altogether, was, at least, certain to be enough to justify the Government in making experimental inquiries on the subject. We do not know, even if the discovery had been success ful, how it was proposed to utilise it—how, for in stance, to recoat our ironsides with 10 or 12 feet of pressed wool, or how to appiy so bulky and cum brous an appliance in any way. Fortunately there is no necessity for considering such embarrassing speculation now, inasmuch as the experiment of Wednesday proved the wool to be rather more per meable to shot than almost any other novelty that has yet been fired at. A very few words •is suffi cient to tell the result. The target, if we may so call it, was a wrought iron tube, like a boiler or iron funnel,open at both ends, loft. in diameter and about lift' long. The wool part of the target was con structed by tilting this on end and filling it with wool as tightly as men could trample it down till the cylin der was full. It was then laid on its side fronting the gun, so as to present the appearance of a large white circular target or drum, 10ft. in diameter and lift. thick of solid wool. The first shot was fired from the Armstrong 100.pounder:with a 101 b charge, and this not only passed through the target from end to end, but buried itself in the earth behind. A second shot was fired from the 68-pounder, with the usual service charge, and this also went through, burying itself in the bank, and as a means of re sistance the target was such a palpable and utter failure that even Mr. Nasmyth was satisfied with these two shots, and concurred in the uselessness of firing any more. The result exactly fulfilled the anticipations of the Iron-plate and Ordnance Com. mittees, who, however, concurred in the propriety of trying the experiment, for the sake of exploding and patting an end to the theory for ever. One would think, however, that the extensive and ex pensive experience the Government have had of the value of these new theories would by this time have given them sufficient confidence to say " No" to experiments with any further crotchets except at the inventor's own expense. An infinitely more curious and important ex periment took place at S aoeburyness last week, to test the powers of the greatest gun yet forged by Sir William Armstrong against oue of the thickest plates which Messrs. John Brown and Co.'s eminent firm have yet produced for actual armour plating. The gun was the celebrated Big Will, the 600 pounder, about which so many canards have been in circulation as to its having given way at the breech, &c., for all of which there has not been the slightest foundation. This magnificent piece of ord nance has only been fired 20 times, each time with the most prodigious result, and after the great ex periment of Thursday it was as perfect inside and out as the day it left the factory at Elswick. The mass of iron, for it can hardly be called a plate, against which it was tried on Thurs day, was no less than eleven inches in.thickness— a sample of one of the many of the same enormous strength made by Messrs. Brown and Co. for the Russian Government to plate the sea faces of some of the most important and most exposed of the Cronstadt forts. According to the theory of the Iron-plate Committee, that the strength of an iron plate increases as the square of its thickness, the 11-inch mass tried on Thursday was equal in strength to no less than six plates of the famous Warrior target ; yet, before the experiment com menced not the slightest doubt was entertained that the 600 pounder would utterly smash if the fired with a 6001 b. shot. The real interest of the experiment consisted in ascertaining—first, whe ther the same destructive result would be gained by using the gu❑ as a smooth-bore with a steel shot of half the weight; secondly, how the gun would stand the tremendous charge of 901bs. of powder ; and, thirdly, whether the fracture of the plate would show that even Messrs. Brown could manufacture oue of 11 inches in thickness r erfect throughout. These were the three points really at issue, and the solution of these was looked forward to with keen interest by all the officers on the ground. The first and only shot, we are happy to say, settled them all in the most satisfactory manner, and proved the enormous advantage of steel shot, the strength of the gun, and the excellent manufacture of the plate. The plate or slab of iron was four feet long by three and a half wide, and was unimpaired in its strength by a single bolt-hole or fastening. It was held up vertically against two 12 inch beams of solid oak, to which it was fastened by railway iron passing up its face on either side. Behind it, and in support of the oak beams, was the Fairbairn target of 5 inch plates and a 1 inch inner skin, with the usual massive framework of iron rib beams. This target, however, did not support the plate to be fired at, but only the beams of o sk which held it in its position. There was an interval of 12 inches be t ween the plate and the Fairbairn target, which wile left purposely that the former might do its own work if it could unaided. The proceedings were commenced by firing two cast iron round shot of 3001 b. weight, levelled at 200 yards' range, against a " dummy" target placed close alongside the 11 inch plate, for the purpose of determining tea e exact degree of elevation to be given to the gun. Both these were fired with the enormous charge of 901 b. of powder. Such charges even with 600 pounders would not be used in actual warfare, and for experimental purposes like that of Thursday were objectionable, as it seemed to make it almost as much an effort to destroy the gun as the target. To load " Big Will" with a sack of powder, such as two men could scarcely lift into the muzzle-- 7 such a sackful as it was never built to withstand, and such as it would not be loaded with in service —seemed, as an experiment, almost childish. The gun stood it perfectly to all outward seem ing; but those conversant with the nature of wrought iron know very well that the piece is so much the worse for the ordeal through which it bas now been forced, and that they have, if any thing, less confidence in "Big Will" after such a straining than they had before it was tested at all. Our system of testing wrought-iron guns is con demned without an exception by the Artillery officers of all other nations in the world. The pre cise range having been ascertained " Big Will" was again stuffed with a sackful of powder, but, instead of a cast-iron projectile, was loaded with a steel round shot of 3441 b. weight, and levelled against the target. This shot struck the very centre of the plate with a terrible crash, at a velocity of 1,560 feet, and at one blow closed the experiments of the day. Nothing further remained to be accomplished, for the target was gone. Never, probably has a more tremendous blow been struck by human agency. The mass of steel drie en by the tremendous charge of powder must have struck the target with a power inconceivable, for everything went down before it. The solid oak beams behind the plate were crushed into splinters, and the plate itself hurled bodily back against the Fairbairn target and split into two pieces, one huge piece being flung away to the right and the other to the left, and all this before the shot had time to penetrate to a greater depth than 41 inches. The 11-inch plate, in fact, had not suffi cient stability even to receive the blow aimed at it; it was torn apart by the tremendous force with which it was jammed against the Fairbairn target behind, and an examination of the fracture showed that its manufacture was admirable. Fourteen feet in front of the target lay the steel shot, much flattened and cracked, but evidently as good metal of its kind as Mr. Brown's plate itself. A close examination of the gun was next made by the Inspector of Artillery, and it was found to be wholly uninjured. Notwithstanding the use of steel round shot in a rifled gun, the grooves of the rifling remained es sharp and fine as ever, and only one feeling seemed to be entertained on the ground as to the strength of the gun and the excellence of the plates. Our readers may, perhaps, ask what further tnodi flattens or changes are denoted by this.experiment, either in our ironclads or our artillery. We fear that, as far as a pratical result is concerned, the experiment' is absolutely worthless, except as showing that Messrs. Brown and Co. can make an 11-inch plate as perfect as their sk-inch plates, and that the 600 pounder will utterly destroy the most perfect 11 inch plate that can be made. Unfortunately, however, 11-inch plates are not wanted for our ironclads, be cause they cannot carry them, and still more unfor tunately, the 600 pounder which can destroy them is not in our service. The 600 pounder at Shoe buryness is only an " experimental" gun —so called, we presume, from the fact that no experiments worth speaking of have been undertaken with it, and that, though it has been tanning on the beach at Shoeburynese since last April, only 20 rounds have been fired from it in a year. What the gun will de stroy is pretty well known, but what the gun will endure before it is itself destroyed no one seems to know, or care about kne wing. And it is this very question of the life of these large guns—that is, the number of effective rounds they will fire, not the number of destructiVe chargos which they can be made to take before breaking . , which the country ought to see solved. The stereotyped answer of the Government to all complaints about the want of effi cient artillery is that more of these great guns can not be orclered till their powers of endurance are known. Yet this 600 pounder—their best gun—has been now a whole year at Shoeburyness without even an attempt to ascertaire the number of rounds it will stand. It is the same with the 300 pounders. Where are the big guns which have alone proved really efficient against thick iron plates? Where are these 300 pounders, one shot from which has never failed to smash the strongest experimental naval target at Shoeburyness, against which even salvoes of 68 pounders and 110 pounders were fired in vain ? There are two on board the gunnery-ship Excellent at Portsmouth, one or two at Shoebury ness, another on board the Royal Sovereign cupola ship,and about eight unrifled, and without even car riages, in store at the Arsenal. It cannet be ima gined that the Admiralty really believe in the po tency of their old guns, or even in the Duke of Somerset's 100 pounder Armstrong smooth bores, for the successful attack of iron-plated vessels such as now exist. One 300 pounder is to be preferred to a whole broadside of such guns, and one 600 pounder is vastly superior in destructive ( ffect io many 300 panders. These powerful guns are good for something or good for nothing. The public urgently desire to know the truth with respect to them, and very properly complain of spending large sums of money upon experimental machines which hitherto have been merely employed as bugbears to frighten our enemies and lull the British nation into false notions of security. We have monster irons clads, and so have other Powers ; but what are they good for without suitable guns ? It is important that the public should know that, in the event of the necessity arising for large ord nance like 300 and 600 pounders, a considerable period must elapse before they can be supplied. If the powers of endurance of the big guns are still doubtful, who is responsible for the delay in the decision of this question ? It can hardly be attri buted to the responsible advisers of the War office in the matter of artillery—the Ordnance Select Committee, for they must clearly have reported in favour, at least, of the 300-pounder, as otherwise these guns would not have been formally intro duced into the service. Is economy the cause ? If so, we may venture to suggest that, as the price of iron has risen considerably of late, the acres of ob solete cast-iron guns at the Arsenal might now be disposed of with advantage. The uninstructed Englishman, in surveying this endless array of old and useless guns, may, perhaps, consider tho scene as peculiarly impressive, and felicitate himself that his country possesses such inexhaustible stores of ordnance. No greater or more serious delusion can well be entertained. 'With the exception of the Armstrong field artillery, we are now without any recognised gun, and have none whatever of large calibre for army or navy. The experiments at Shoeburyness are very interesting, and would be valuable if they were anything but experiments. But the important results which have been elimina ted there have been ignored in turn by both Admi ralty and War-office, and at the end of four years' experimenting, and nearly two millions of money, we are still dawdling on at trials like that of Thurs day, when it is the plates which are tested, and not the gun which knocks them to pieces, and then rusts till John Brown sends np a stronger and a thicker plate. A plate sent up to Shooburyness one week is tried the next. The 300-pounders were sent there in May, 1862 ; the 600-pounder in April, 1863 ; and here in March, 1864, the Government state that they are not yet acquainted with their powers of endurance. Experiments at Shoeburyness are very costly ; as far as acting upon their results are concerned, either in targets or guns, they seem ut terly worthless. Both the Orduance and the Iron plate Committee know this welt, and, what is worse, know that they are powerless to remedy the evil. The Yankees' Tribute to Mr, Bright ! (From the Alta California, San Francisco, Jan. 27.) The following was received by the United States Marshal yesterday, and the conditions were shortly afterwards communicated to Rubery, who signified his intention of proceeding by the first steamer to England, at the same time thanking the Mirshal for his uniformly courteous demeanour towards him. He was then released : " Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, to all to whom these presents may come, greeting : 'Whereas one Alfred Rubery was convicted on or about the 12th day of October, 1863, in the circuit court of the United States for the district of California, of engaging in and giving aid and comfort to the existing rebel lion against the Government of this country, and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment, and to pay a fine of 10,000 dollars; and where• as the said Alfred Rubery is of the immature age of twenty years, and of highly respectable parentage; and whereas the said Alfred Rubery is a subject of Great Britain, and his pardon is desired by Sohn Bright of England : _ " Now, therefore be it known that I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, these and divers other considerations me thereunto moving, and especially as a public mark of the es teem held by the United States of America for the high character and steady friendship of the said John Bright, do hereby grant a pardon to the said Alfred Rubery, the same to begin and take effect on the 20th day of January, 1864, on condition that he leave the country within thirty days from and after that date. In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. " Done at the City of Washington, this seventeenth day of Dec Ember, A.D. 1863, and of the independence of the United States the eight•eighth. "By the President. " ABRAHAM LINCOLN. [L. B.] "IVM. H. SEWARD." CAMBRIDGE. st lb J. C. Hawkshaw, Trinity (bow) E. V. Pigott, Corpus .. 11 10 H, Watson, Pembroke W. W. Hawkins, St. John's R. A. Kinglake, Trinity G. Borthwick, Trinity F. Stevenson, Triaity . . J. R. Selwyn, Trinity G. H. Archer, Corpus,. (cox.) Hundreds have visited the locus in quo to witness their exertions. The Oxonians were a couple of days in advance of the Cantabs, and the following may be deemed a sum mary of their work :—They rose early and took walking exercises—had first what is termed a paddle, in their boat, and then took to exceedingly hard trials over the course against a picked crew of London watermen, who had to row all they possibly could to keep anything like pace with them. With the advance of training speculation gradually , became more important and significant. From the com mencement of our observations several important changes have occurred in the betting. It opened at 6 to 4 on Oxford, advanced to 7 to 4 and 2 to 1, and then as the pretensions to equal merit on the Vert of the Cantabs were discussed, declined to 5 to 4, and sank in many cases to equal betting, but the result of the Oxonians' race against the picked watermen on Thursday immediately after the Cantabs' trial with them, irresistibly led to the conclusion that the Oxonians were the better crew, and in support of that view the betting in their favour again ranged upwards from 6 to 4t02t0 1. Throughout the whole of the fluctuations in the odds which we have described, there were plenty of takers, and consequently very large sums of money, exceed ing the amount generally laid, depended upon the result. The distance was altered on this occasion in order to afford the whole of the steamboats an opportunity of being ranged in a line behind the competitors instead of lying in ambush at different points up the course and harrassing and impstling the rowers by their wash. The start was arranged to take place by the joint concurrence of the crews from barges moored nearly opposite Putney pier, the race being, as heretofore, from Putney to the ship at Mortlake, and it had been posit , vely declared that if any of the steam boat captains violated the conditions laid down the race should be deferred till the ebb, Oa Friday arrangements were made for the start to take place at eleven o'clock, J. W. Chitty, Esq., Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, again undertaking the onerous office of umpire, and Mr. Edward Searle, of the firm of Messrs. Searle, the eminent boat builders, the duty of starter. The Oxford crew rowed in their old boat of last year, and the Cambridge in a new one, built expressly for the occasion by Mat Taylor, of New castle, and the claws had received and accepted an invita tion to dine after the race with the Thames Subscription Club. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales honoured the race with his presence on board the " George Peabody," chartered by the Thames Subscription Club. His Royal High ness, who was accompanied by the Prince Gluckeburg, Gene ral Knollys, Colonel Keppel, and two others of his suite, embarked at Pimlico pier, whither he had been conveyed in a private carriage, and was received by the Hon. G. Den man, M.P., President of the Thames Subscription Club, N. X. Phellips, Vice, and Messrs. Walter, Draper, Bobes, Alderman Rose, and Mr. H. F. Smith, the Honorary Sec retary of the club. The august party were then conveyed to the head of the boat, where a portion of the bow had been specially roped off for their exclueive accommodation. Daring the whole of the 20 previous races the competitors have never been so honoured. The Prince of Wales who with his party appeared much gratified with the trial of skill and manhood, debarked on their return, after the race, at Hammersmith-bridge, where their carriages awaited them. The competitors rose early and ate a good breakfast ; after which they had some slight exorcise until shortly be fore the necessary preparations to get into t heir boats. The various steamboat piers ail up the river had been thronged with gentlemen anxious to get on board the steamers—of which there were nearly twenty—to accompany the race, while at Putney everything betokened bustle, anxiety, and excitement. Betting Was brisk at 6t04 on Oxford. The day was just sucha:Onens - the best judges of such matters would have selected for a University race. The wind was easterly, without being severe, and, being with the tide, the surface of the w a t er was as smoot h as a we ll-k e pt bowling green. Oxford won the choice of station, and took the side near the; Bishop of London's grounds ; soon afterwards fol lowed by the Cambridge crew, indeed the latter were afloat first. The boat carrying the Prince of Wales and suite was next to the barge when the start was made, the umpire's boat, Citizen C, being close alongside. At a quarter to 12, and without any loss of time the start, was effected admirably. Both crews went off at a fine pace, Cambri ge with a slight lead, which was held for a few seconds, the rowing being very fine and very rapid in both boats, 40 and 41 strokes being male per minute. Directly the maj es ti c sweep o f t h e O x ford oars aced Oxford swing began to tell, and the na after boats a few seconds st r i c tly l eve l, the ate thoroughpaced h theo werero ug start, fho. rp rowing, although amazing in pace, being remarkably clean; but it was obvious to those who were near, within two or three minutes of the time of starting, that the Oxonians were beginning to take a slight lead ; but so gal lant was the rowing of the Cambridge that it was not until their arrival near the Craven that the Oxonians got clear of them, and there had been in the doing of this much praise worthy and plucky labour on their part, for the Cambridge were a strong crew, and not easily to be denied. The dia• tance to Craven was done in 3 min. 35 secs., and after that the Oxonians gradually drew away, and the number of strokes per minute decreased to 37, and in some cases to 36 strokes in the Cambridge boat, while the Oxonia ns were doing one more. At the Crabtree the Oxonians had increased their lend to two lengths, and the time was 4 min. 26 sec. In the shoot over to Hammer smith-bridge the Cantabs made a desperate spurt to en deavour to better their position, but failed, and the Oxonians passed through Hammersmith-bridge four lengths ahead. Time hero was variously taken from 7 min. 40 sec. to nearly 8 min., but the pressure and collisions here were so great that men were looking to safety rather than time, and the royal party and umpire were both shut out from any sight after this. The Oxonians went on moving, and arrived opposite the Ship at Mortlake first, by a dozen lengths. The crew after a moment's rest turned and rowed back, accompanied by the illustrious visitors. The Prince of Wales repeatedly applauded both crews during the race, joining in the gene ral expression of congratulation upon their success, and showed the pleasure ho experienced in the rowing on the return. The general company, upon descrying the royal ensign, recognised the Prince, and he was welcomed with hearty cheers, which he duly acknowledged. The time occupied in the race by the winners was 22 min, 28 sec. [ADVERTISEMENT.] — Holloway ' s Pills. hysteric and other Fits.—These pills exert the most beneficial influence over the brain and nerves, and therefore are the safest and surest remedies for all disorders of those vital organs, Few diseases were more unmanageable than hysterics, convul sions, and similar fits, until trial was made of Holloway's pills, which proved able at once to control the morbid irrita tion, and very rarely failed to carry the patient steadily on to health and strength. Epileptic seizures, springing from scrofulous taints, are especially amenable by this treatment, which eradicates their cause. The pills should be taken in doses, calculated to act energAtically on the bowels ; the diet should be digestible, nutritious, and plainly cooked ; pastry and spirits should be altogether avoided. Exeter Assizes.—A Scene in Court, (From the Law Times of to-day, just published.) A "scene" occurred at the Exeter assizes on Friday. During the hearing of a case Mr. Carter, a barrister, made an observation which Mr. Baron Bramwell said the learned gentleman had no right to make. Carter—You have no right to interrupt in this way. His Lordship—l have the right, for y ou are stating that which is incorrect. Carter—l have it on my notes: His Lordship—Hear me out, sir, Y ou, sir, know that the only bindi n g record of what a witness says is what appears on the j ud g e's n otes, and I have You ought to have it not got it down. Carter (sharply)—Then down. His Lordship—lf you repeat that expression to yourself to do d i e . centiy t , me se nd you out of court, s i r . HClrstLero—rdYstao j u p ale ße a h t a l v ib e e or you shall be sent out. Carter—Your Lordship has no right to address me in this way. His Lordship—l have the right and shall exer cise it, very unpleasantly for you, perhaps. Carter—You may exercise the power; but I don't know whether you have the right or not. I protest against being interrupted and addressed in this manner. His Lordship—Go on with your address, and conduct yourself properly. Carter then continued his address to the j aty. SECOND► EDITION SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK. LREUTER'S TELEGRAM.] RELEASE OF GERMAN SHIPS. HANOVER, MAECH 19. The Danish Government has decreed the mksr of the Hanoverian ships under embargo in Dalai: ports. LITERATURE. The Magi, Agar, and Is'nael, with other Poem:. By I. M. E, B. Oae vol., pp. 63. Richards:: and Son. Although there are but nine brief poems makir up the sixty-three pages of this little volume—tt poems altogether if we count the rhythmical prt face as one —there is enough evidence of poet merit in these maiden effusions of I. M. E. B. I justify us in commending the work for such as it i and in looking forward (as we are fain to do) to t 1 renewal of our acquaintance with the anonymot writer of the ba©k through the medium of sort more matured compositions. Without one excel Lion, the whole of the nine poems and the Prete, may be spoken of as of a distinctly religious charm ter. NATURE is regarded by the author but as medium through which to contemplate GOD. I this the writer sedulously acts upon the advice the Essayist on Man. If we remember rightly, is in " Festus" that Philip Bailey, by a (knit figure of speech, talks of the cerulean;heaven s abol us as—" the blue eye of God." To the author The Magi, Agar and Ismael, with other Poems— is, if we might so express it, but as a lense throng which the Divine Being may appear more distincv visible to the gaze of the Soul. Eve the second poem in the collection, the one relatir ►o " The Winds," comes under the category " religious poems." " The Magi" is, among all a pieces here submitted to us, at once the most variou in metre and the most highly elaborated in it design_ The opening apostrophe of the Prefect expresses in a few words the whole character of th book—in the manner following :- 0 I for a seraph's eloquence of praise, A cherub's love to swell my tepid lays! An angers ardour my weak song t' That I might spread abroad my Saviour's name? But I, small thing of nothing—what am I Who now presume to praise the Deity; When all his wondrous works, alcove, below, Around, about, fail His great worth to show ? The foregoing verses not only express the ch arse( of the book, but the humble and reverent mind o the author of it. As a prelude to the songs praise and adoration the book contains, the Prefac thus begun at once conciliates our approval. Legal Forms for Common Use : Being 200 Prece dents. By Jams Waiter Smith, EFT, LLD One Vol. Pp. 188. Effingham Wilson. Under a dozen distinct heads, the learned corn piler of this very useful little guide-book to Leg, Forms has cleverly and succinctly arranged hi two hundred precedents. He has, in so doing not contented himself with simply ai ranging them in something like symmetrict order. He has combined the more delicate an. responsible duties of collation with those fa more easily fulfilled of 'mere compilation. He hi accompanied his array of forms and illustratiN precedents with terse introductions and the clearet explanatory notes. The structure and tendency c the whole book may be, perhaps, the most readil3 as beyond all doubt it may be the most lucidly in dicated by reference to the twelve headings pc forth upon the very title-page. Negotiable Instra ments, first of all—a class of Forms of which th following, taken haphazard from the volume, ma) be cited as a sufficiently startling exemplar : BILL PAYABLE ON DEMAND OR AT SIGHT. £lOO Os. Od. London, Ist Nov., 1862. Oa demand or at sightl, pay to me, or my order [or to G. IL or his order], Ono Hundred Pounds, value received. WlLLl.tist SHAKSPERE. To Mr. Oliver Cromwell, No. 2, Fleet-streat, Securities next. Then Receipts. and Acknowledg ments. Afterwards Partnership. Followed by Master and Servant. The sixth division being allotted to Landlord and Tenant. The seventh to Arbitration. Then County Court Forms. Then Conveyances. Succeeded in due course by Marring. Articles and Settlements, by Wills, and by form of a miscellaneous character. Added to all which there is a Chapter on Stamps. As about th. readiest handbook to Legal Forms ever published. we take this half-a-crown's worth of information t be really and truly rather difficult to appraise at it just valuation. The Hand-Book of Astrology. By Zadkiel Tao Sz Vol. IL, pp. 76. Cousins, and Berger. Our old friend of the stars seers somehow t flourish upon his grievances. The prophetic alman, is understood to have had a wider circulation that ever since the famous trial came off in the Court o. Queen's Bench before the Lord Chief Justice of England. As many as four thousand copies beyond the usual vast sale every year having already passed over the publishers' counter to the believing, or more probably we should say with the generality of purchasers, the simply curious public. And here, as a more substantial expression of his reliance upon his auditory, we have the venerable Seer (now tha he has been himself seen by the public at large, i• actual flesh and blood, standing in a witness-bo: in a court of law), we have the genuine origins Zadkiel Tao SZJ (with that wonderful Hal., wriggling hieoroglyphic in the centre of his name like four flies' legs making a wheel), issuink' from the press this second volume of hi: " Handbook of Astrology." In it, that it; in this second-volume-extraordinary, ZAdkeil's readers will find the full, true, and particular account of The Dactrine of Nativities. An account, as th! Sage himself announces upon his title page es "free of" (meaning, freed from) " all mystery." Accordin,, to which—though while we read we can hardl:. believe our eyes that he should so state —" Every man may calculate his own Nati vity," thereby learning his own Natural Cha racter and Proper Destiny. Than which, wha can a man want to know more a bort himself , yvat aecarrov was never put forth surely in more promising guise than this — as a bit of philosophi ca l advice, quite feasible in its way , and very readily to be accomplished. However , here is the book p ro . fessing to inculcate it. Ri ve r Angling for Salmon and 7 rout. B y John Younger. One 01., pp. 220. Rutherford. Younger, from his photograph as the frontispiece, looks, somehow, older than we should have expected. Older, that is than his readers might have judged him to be hem the freshness of his discourse upon River Angling. A quaint old face the canny Scotch Waltonian has, too, for that mutter. " Affectionately yours," he signs himself (writing in his shirt sleeves apparently, at any rate having his portrait taken in them, and to all api,earance laughing in them all the while)—" John Younger." The book is k good, practical, capital book in its way. Just the very book to drop into the angler's wallet. The treatise, if we may dignify it with that high-sound ing name, is preceded by an agreeable and very readable memoir of the author.. The edition before us—excellently well got up altogether—is further enhancad in value by an appended list of the Tweed Salmon casts. LONDON GAZiTTIL—Last Evening. FOREIGN OFFICE, MABCII 16. The Queen has been Fowles as Consul at Liverpool for th e United States o f Vtmzuela. Liverpool to apptov« of Mr. A. W. g...... W... 1•••.• BANKRUPTS bankrupts cf commercial im portance in the iiazette TTotfing•hill F E r d a w n a c r i s d s P e r a i r m t h e s e o a i r i p c/ t n o t r e , r Pimlico Patric Mackennal, commercial traveller, Lambeth James gill, grocer, Worcester John Horton, farmer, Chester . Joseph Solomon, tailor, Birmingham Alfred Lucas, tailor, 11.inley, btafiordshiro Ed wa rd D. Cotton, cooper, Wolverhampton Ch ar les Holmes, plumber and glazier, Pimli co P e ter lienway, commission agent, Cam I I s=